GOP Congressman Suggests Limited Nuclear Retaliation

CNS News ^ | 10/18/01 | Jim Burns

[Capt.YankeeMike]

you are incorrect. if taliban had nukes in the US, they would have been detonated by now, so there goes your argument...

[daves_brother]

Buyer is a sleeper among the Republicans, I think. He will (or should) make a name for himself in national leadership soon. In addition to being a Gulf War vet, he was one of the managers in the impeachment trial. He is in a fairly safe Republican district that has has been carved out of Inidiana. So he should be able to serve in Congress just about as long as he wants to. He's MY representative, and am proud that he serves our interests in the House.

[kapn kuek]

Let's ROLL!

[Rustynailww]

yes.

[truthandlife]

Buyer's comments only continue the American mania of having bloodless victories.

So do you believe that it was wrong for us to save American lives in WWII by using nukes on Japan?

[lds23]

I'm with this guy.

[daves_brother]

Inidiana = Indiana (oops)

[Rowdee]

These idiots are getting more and more brazen!

[The Great RJ]

I have long felt that the use of chemical or biological agents against the US should be met with a nuclear response.

[agenda_express]

Already Posted: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/551193/posts

THE AGENDA EXPRESS

[Sara Dorian]

absolutely insane to be the first to use tact nukes. It would give cover to the enemy to use nukes on home soil.

If I read you correctly, I disagree with you. If binL has 'em, he will use 'em. Why should we take a second hit of innocence and instead of 7,000 it will be 70,000 or even the next exponent of that. Take him out FIRST. We were the FIRST to take out Japanese empire '45...

[Alas]

Do a search for B61-11, the nuke bunker buster. Made to order for what the Congressman is suggesting. I'd love it.

Here it is: http://www.sandia.gov/LabNews/LN08-01-97/b61_story.html

Personally, I'd like something a bit bigger, say 25 megatons or so.

Nukem

[KellyAdmirer]

No, the WWII A-bombs are easily defensible - and still look at the endless controversy even now over their use. It was a first use, before the world was armed to the teeth with nukes, ended a world war, and saved hundreds of thousands of American lives. All the other major powers were not just supporting us, but actually had ground forces in operation. Here, none of those facts apply.

What do you suppose the Chinese and Indians would think when nuclear clouds float over their territory afterward? How would you feel about your family drinking contaminated milk for the next few years?

[Clemenza]

When will the good people of Indiana WAKE UP and elect this guy over Evan Gay.

[FresnoDA]

Volley Up!! Fire!!

[DWSUWF]

Man is a funny sort of creature...

Before he ever does something in the 'real world', he does it in his head.

The act of 'Speaking' about something, even as a remote possibility, automatically advances people more than halfway toward 'Doing' it.

One of the ways in which this reality is validated is demonstrated by the virtually universal use by governments of 'trial balloons'. Even repressive regimes often run ideas up the flagpole and take note of whether they draw any salutes.

An unwillingness to use trial balloons as one instrument of policy decision making, in fact, is a good indicator that the regime involved is not long for the world.

The murdering sand goblins simply went too far. And, like the doomed characters in a Greek tragedy, they are busily compounding their error in virtually every way that they are able to.

There's a symmetry, a predictable harmony to what is developing...

1) "Nuke Em?"

2) "We'll Nuke Em if..."

3) "Nuke Em!"

4) "We Nuked Em because..."

We're at step 2 now, just a few spores, a bit of soldier’s blood, an atrocity away from step 3. The question is no longer whether we will use nukes in this struggle, but whether any realistic possibility remains that we won’t.

[eccl1212]

it was john kerry... and he is NOT from texas... for godsake man get a grip... if we blame texans for kerry, they might decide to take up their old status as the texas republic... we need 'em right now to keep our own coalition here together... don't messshh wi teksus.

< /sarcasm >

Repeat for all texans, we know YOU did not send us Kerry... please forgive us....

[Pitchfork]

America currently and indisputably occupies the moral high-ground with respect to Bin-Ladin and the Taliban regime in conducting its reponse to terrorism. No resonable criticism can be advanced against a US conventional military response to the death of thousands of civilians regardless of the amount of collateral damage it generates. Using nuclear weapons would instantly revoke this moral standing without necessarily advancing any military goal. Irradiating portions of the Afghan countryside for a few thousand years simply isn't a worthwhile endeavor.

[agenda_express]

"When will the good people of Indiana WAKE UP and elect this guy over Evan Gay."

AMEN TO THAT!

[agenda_express]

Pitchfork - member since October 18th, 2001